Ash-sifter.



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1\I0 881,601. PATENTED MAR. 10, 1908.

A. MANZO. ASH SIPTER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 31, 1907.

i r v ATTORNEYS.

UNITE TAT s Ara ASH-SIFTER.

Application filed October 31, 1907.v Serial No. 400,067.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that LADELE l\ IANZO, a citizeh of thy. United States, residing in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in .\sl1-Sift. ei-s; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had t .he' accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference 1narked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My lIlYOH'LlOIIJ'GltllLQS to ash sitters, and it consists in certain improvements having for their principalobject to provide an ash sifter which shall be simple, strong and durable in construction, and relatively inexpensive to manufacture .-.;'-,and which shall furthermore make it possible to sift ashes in such a manner as to entirely confine the dust and thus make the operation'as clean as possible.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, Figure'l is a front view of the improved device; Fig. 2 is a top plan View with the front door and the top leaves or covers open; and, Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially in the axis of the sifter proper.

In the drawings, a designates a rectangularioasingcomprising side walls I), said casing being open at the top where it is provided with two leaves or covers 0 for closing-ranchopening and having a bottom wall 1). One of said side walls also has a laterally elongated opening (I which is closed by a doore hinged at thetop, as-at This door has its lower middle portion cut away as at g, to form a slot. The opposite side wall of the casing carries a hook h whose purpose will later appear. The casing a incloses a hopper i which is formed by four walls inclining inwardly from the side walls I) to an opening 1c in the bottom wall I). A horizontal rabbet Z maybe formed on the inside surface of the wall I) of casing a which is opposite that having the hook it, the top of this rabbet being coincident with the bottom of the opening (Z. Into the rabbet is fitted a shelf m, the inclined walls extend just under the shelf m so that the two which rise at the ends of the shelf support it, as best shown in Fig. 3

n desi hates the sifter proper. This is a rectangu ar box having a wire netting .or other foraminous bottom wall 0 and proyidedon one side with an enlarged eye p whichreceives the hook h and on the opposite. side with a handle {1 adapted to project Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 10, 1908.

through the slot g. The sifter proper is of considerably less dimensions than the casing a. It will be observed that the eye 29 is above a horizontal lane cutting the sifter centrally. It will al o be observed that the handle g is correspondingly below this plane.

In the operation of the device, the casing being arrangedon the barrel supported by its bottom wall and the sifter roper being made to rest on the shelf m, t e ashes are placed in the .sifter and the covers 0 closed, as is also the door e. The sifter is then oscillated laterally on its hook while-resting on i the shelf m. At this time, the eye 1) being above the centrally horizontal lane of the sifter, the operation is facilitate because the described d1sposition of the axis of the sifter revents it from any tendency toward toplieaviness if the sifter 'is slightly lifted, as it may be, from the shelf. When the sifting is complete, the door e is opened and the sifter drawn out through the opening (1 for the purose of permitting the good coal to be seected from-the bad, the door 6 being again closed so as to confinethe dust.

By disposing the handle g below the centrally horizontalplane of the sifter n, and as close to the shelf m as possible, the slot 9 may be made of very limited width whereby to prevent any material escape of dust at that oint. p Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: In an ashsifter, the combination of a casing open at top. and bottom and comprising side walls, a hopper arranged in said casing and comprising walls inclinin r inwardly from the side walls of the casing an occupying the lower portion of the casing, a sitter proper having a handle on one side thereof belowthe centrally horizontal plane of the sitter and a pivotal support on t e opposite side thereof and above said plane, one side wall of the casing having a Sifter-admission opening and comprising a hinged door for said 0 ening formed in its lower edgewith a slot. or the handle, and hinged covers or leaves adapted to close the casing at the top thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 29th (lay of October, 1907.

ADELE MANZO. Witnesses:

WM. D. BELL, JOHN W. STEWARD- 

